Idols Quotes - Page 22

• When you're an artist, your personal life and your professional life kind of blend together. I'm writing from home so I don't have an office or anything. I don't know where to draw the line between "Okay, let's stop now and watch American Idol."

  Daryl Wein

  Home, Writing, Artist

  Source: collider.com

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• The Zen Master warns: 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!' This admonition points up that no meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddhahood of each of us has already been obtained. We need only recognize it. Philosophy, religion, patriotism, all are empty idols. The only meaning in our lives is what we each bring to them. Killing the Buddha on the road means destroying the hope that anything outside of ourselves can be out master. No one is any bigger than anyone else. There are no mothers or fathers for grown-ups, only sisters and brothers.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Mother, Brother, Father

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Men, Carrie

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• Dolly is a legend. Jessica is so beautiful. I take it as a big compliment when people put me beside them. About being compared to Dolly Parton & Jessica Simpson on the Idol red carpet.

  Kellie Pickler

  Beautiful, People, Red

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• The earliest stand-up comedy I was aware of was Bill Cosby. I watched Saturday Night Live as soon as I was aware of it, and Monty Python used to be on PBS at weird hours, so I used to try to watch that. And I loved George Carlin on SNL, that was the first stand-up I ever really remember seeing on TV. And then Steve Martin. I guess I was in fifth or sixth grade when Steve Martin showed up, and he was instantly my idol. And Richard Pryor around the same time too, I sort of became aware of him, though I don't remember the first time I saw him.

  Louis C. K.

  Night, Pbs, Python

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• Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.

  Michel Patini

  Believe, Character, Player

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• My idols have always stuck to their guns and said what they want to do.

  Richard Patrick

  Gun, Want, Said

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• When we encounter the world of ideas for the first time, we easily get overwhelmed. Scripture is telling us, 'Don't be distracted by the details. Cut to the core by asking, What is its idol?' Whatever functions as its God substitute will shape everything else.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Cutting, Ideas, Encounters

  "Finding Truth". Interview with Jonathan Petersen, www.biblegateway.com. December 10, 2015.

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• What I have noticed which I'm not nuts about that the trend that a lot of shows are hiring the American Idol type of talent without real training and real technique and I think that audiences are smart and sometimes seeing that things are not as high caliber as they were before.

  Hugh Panaro

  Real, Smart, Thinking

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.

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• Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, Reason, Source

  Nancy Pearcey (2015). “Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes”, p.43, David C Cook

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• An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the created order? Sure it is. So the philosophy of materialism qualifies as an idol in the biblical sense.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, Biblical, Order

  "Finding Truth". Interview with Jonathan Petersen, www.biblegateway.com. December 10, 2015.

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• This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.

  Craig Ferguson

  Citizens, Firsts, Election

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• The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Photography, Dream, Stars

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Despite not looking like a matinee idol, I feel like I have a lot to give. I've never had any trouble with women. People are always surprised with the romantic aspect of my movies.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Giving, Trouble

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. June 16, 2010.

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• Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching 'American Idol' than listen to the state of the union address. And that's too bad. I'm not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch 'American Idol,' that's sad.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Trying, President

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• Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.

  Willie Aames

  Mean, Magazines, Why Me

  "How Willie Aames Went From Teen Heartthrob To Cruise Ship Director" by Lynn Okura, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.

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• Code writers, they are my idols.

  will.i.am

  Code

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of my first big shows, I opened up for Chris Brown; I was about 10 years old, and Chris Brown was just big; he still is one of my idols now.

  Jacob Latimore

  Years, Firsts, Bigs

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• Clay Aiken ran for Congress in North Carolina. But he didn't make it. Clay Aiken is famous for coming in second in a TV popularity contest that most people got fed up with years ago. He also lost on 'American Idol.'

  Craig Ferguson

  Years, People, Clay

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• There are certain times when a certain person says something to me, that will stick with me for a really long time. But I don't remember one person being my idol, or anything like that.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Long, Sticks, Remember

  "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Jennifer Lawrence interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  May, Currency

  "The Latest Decalogue" l. 3 (1862)

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• I played sometimes about as dull as you can play it. I did things the right way, you know. I think I modeled my playing ability after one of the all time greats, Joe DiMaggio. You always found Joe, when he played, you know, he always threw to the right base. He ran, he caught the ball. He did all the right things. He was an idol of mine in the outfield. He played the game the way it was supposed to be played.

  Hank Aaron

  Thinking, Games, Play

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• We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Hands, Should

  Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.235, Penguin

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• The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly. Their religion is essentially inseparable from such idolatry, because of the notion of the 'chosen people'.

  Simone Weil

  Race, People, Woods

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.6, Routledge

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• But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.

  Tom DeLonge

  Guy, Generations, Defining

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